SYNAIR-G
Disrupting Noxious Synergies of Indoor Air Pollutants and their Impact in Childhood Health and Wellbeing
Using Advanced Intelligent Multisensing and Green Interventions.
Vision.
To identify and quantify synergistic interactions between multiple pollutants that affect health, from processes to real-life scenarios, with a focus on the school setting. The project will provide a comprehensive and responsive multipollutant monitoring system, advance environmentally friendly solutions, and share the generated knowledge with relevant stakeholders in accessible and achievable formats.
The challenge.
While the number and types of indoor air pollutants are growing, little is known about the impact of their potentially synergistic interactions on human health.
Children, allergy and asthma sufferers, and people from low socioeconomic origins are among the most vulnerable populations, yet no specialised guidelines or solutions are provided.
Indoor Air Pollutants
Vulnerable Populations
Low Air Quality
Approach & solutions.
To address this challenge, SynAir-G will develop and deploy novel and improved sensors for chemical and biological pollutants (allergens, microorganisms). These will be tested in a real-world setting, in participating schools from six countries across Europe, and will eventually be incorporated into a multisensing platform.
Pollutants will be linked to their sources in the same setting, and two eco-friendly air-purifying devices will be evaluated.
SynAir-G will develop :
- A gamified app and prospective monitoring, respecting privacy, to obtain health outcome data from children.
- Explainable AI to support the near-real time analysis and response.
- Cell and mouse models which will evaluate the mechanisms and complex dose-responses of the synergistic parameters.
The project will thus provide FAIR data on air pollutants and their sources, a comprehensive and personalized user-friendly solution to monitoring indoor air quality, and suggestions for possible interventions and an improved regulatory framework, robustly supporting the Zero Pollution Action Plan.
Pilots
A group of school-aged children will be formed across Europe and beyond (Greece, Germany, France, Finland, the United Kingdom, and Georgia).
Indoor air quality determinants and their interactions will be linked to health outcomes in school-aged children in this study. We will then compare health outcomes connected to air quality across different populations, places, and situations.
SynAir-G child research is a prospective observational study that seeks to correlate indoor air pollution variability and potential synergies with general, respiratory, immunological, and mental health outcomes in schoolchildren.
It will develop a responsive multipollutant monitoring system to measure The Impact of Synergies of Indoor Air Pollutants on childhood health and wellbeing.
Our role.
INLECOM is responsible for the development of the gamified application, a major tool for health outcome assessment in the SynAir-G cohort, as well as the Digital Twin (DT) platform with an intuitive graphical interface for the representation of the AI results. Furthermore, INLECOM acts as the leader of the activities related to the Data management, Guidelines, Dissemination and Exploitation.
This project has received funding from the Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under GA 101057271. Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Commission. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
